Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice 1. Short summary In the neighborhood of the Bennet family's estate of Longbourn, Mr. Bingley, an attractive young bachelor with a good income, has moved into the nearby mansion. He falls in love with the oldest of the five Bennet daughters, Jane. But his friend Mr. Darcy, who's wealthy and aristocratic, disapproves Bingley's choice. Darcy considers the Bennet family to be socially inferior, and he talks with Bingley's sisters about …showed first 75 words of 1990 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1990 total…in the story, which was when Mr. Darcy wants to mary Elizabeth and Elizabeth rejects him. She tells him that even if she did not positively dislike him, she would not marry him, and she gives her reasons: he has deliberately ruined the happiness of her sister by separating Bingley from her and that he cruelly deprived Wickham of the secure future that the elder Mr. Darcy had planned for him. Darcy accepts her statement.